Re: Raspberry Pi as an inexpensive embedded LCDproc server

David Glaude <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:24:20 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.lcdproc
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If you do that my Raspberry Pi will move from wish list to order list.
Please document the hardware/soldering part for dummies it might help me.
Le 18 août 2012 05:09, "Ethan Dicks" <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Hi, All,
>
> Like much of the planet, I'm waiting on delivery of a Raspberry Pi to
> start a number of experiments.  In the meantime, Adafruit has posted a
> bunch of R-Pi tutorials today including this one:
>
> http://learn.adafruit.com/drive-a-16x2-lcd-directly-with-a-raspberry-pi/
>
> It's six GPIO wires from the R-Pi to an HD44780 LCD, and the rest is
> all software.  There's plenty of space and horsepower to run LCDd on
> the R-Pi.  It's probably not too much of a stretch to whip up (and
> share) design files to mount a 4x20 (or whatever is desired) in a
> laser-cut acrylic enclosure with the R-Pi.  At $35 for the
> network-enabled computer plus, say, another $10 or $15 for the
> enclosure, it seems reasonable to bring the entire project in (with
> PSU and LCD) for $80 or less.
>
> If nobody beats me to it, I will be happy to try to get LCDd to
> compile on the Raspberry Pi once mine arrives.  There would need to be
> some driver mods to use R-Pi GPIO rather than a PC parallel port, but
> I can't imagine that would take any great effort especially building
> from the Adafruit tutorial.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -ethan
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